eighty-eighth

American  

[ey-tee-eytth, -eyth] / ˈeɪ tiˈeɪtθ, -ˈeɪθ /

adjective

1. next after the eighty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 88.

2. being one of 88 equal parts.

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noun

1. an eighty-eighth part, especially of one (1/88).

2. the eighty-eighth member of a series.

Example Sentences

On January 14th of last year, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the Academy’s president, arrived at 2:30 A.M., several hours before she was to announce the eighty-eighth annual Oscar nominations at a press conference.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 19, 2017

Some of these artists are regulars—this is Barry Blitt’s eighty-eighth New Yorker cover and Lorenzo Mattotti’s thirtieth.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 16, 2015

By then, Shoji had made up her mind that, in her eighty-eighth year, she would share her own account of what happened on the other side of the bomb.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 12, 2014

With our dogs bounding and tearing onward, from the eighty-seventh to the eighty-eighth parallel we passed for two days over old ice without pressure lines or hummocks.

From My Attainment of the Pole by Cook, Frederick A.

Pope Leo XIII, in his Horatian poem on Frugality composed in his eighty-eighth year, thus verses his appreciation of coffee: Last comes the beverage of the Orient shore, Mocha, far off, the fragrant berries bore.

From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)